"If you only watch one British drama in your life"
"That must be Black Mirror"
Even if it starts with the third season
Remarried Netflix for "nationality"
(British drama becomes American drama, and the quality has declined somewhat)
The Douban score also slipped from 9.3 to 8.7
But none of it affects its thought-provoking
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Black Mirror Season 4 poster
There is an old saying, "With copper as a mirror, you can wear a crown, with people as a mirror, you can see gains and losses, and history as a mirror can know the rise and fall." "Black Mirror" may take the meaning that every episode of each season, like a mirror, gives us the opportunity to reflect and examine ourselves. Through a variety of unfathomable suspense stories, mobilize all our emotions to remind us to enjoy the convenience brought by the information age, but also to be vigilant against the hidden dangers behind it.
Therefore, the fourth season of the divine drama "Black Mirror" (Netflix was launched on December 29, just in time for domestic netizens to brush dramas at home during the New Year's Day holiday), of course, it has become the most anticipated in 2017, and the New Year's Eve must brush American dramas, and the popularity can almost be equated with "Game of Thrones".
Douban netizens are waiting for the basic symptoms of the fourth season of "Black Mirror"
This season of "Black Mirror" consists of six episodes, namely "Archangel" (directed by Judy Foster), "USS Carlist", "Crocodile Skin", "Hanging DJ", "MetalHead" and "Play" The Last Episode "Museum of Noir". Before Netflix went live, the fourth season of "Black Mirror" was still very good among critics, with a 92% freshness rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
However, it is a bit of a pity that Uncle Ba, who has watched all six episodes, privately thinks that the quality is not as good as before, which is a bit derailed. This is not to blame the Fourth Season of "Black Mirror" for its Douban score of only 8.8.
Judging from imdb's current single episode ratings, "Hanging DJ" and "Black Museum" both maintained above the 9-point level, followed by "USS Carliste" with 8.7 points. And full of topics and attention, Judy Fuster's "Archangel" has only 7.8 points. However, the slightly low rating does not mean that the drama is not good, like Uncle Ba, I like the episode of "Using Carlist" very much, and I will talk to you later.
First of all, let's talk about the talented woman Judy Foster's "Archangel", everyone's impression of her may still stay in [The Silence of the Lamb], the female detective who tugged at Hannibal's heartstrings - Clarice Starling.
In the days when there was no uric acid, Judy Foster was tender like a piece of tofu
In fact, after so many years, Judy Foster has directed many movies and American dramas as a director! Although she directs films, word of mouth is very general. For example, George Clooney starred in [Money Monster] starring Julia Roberts, and her self-directed and self-directed [Beaver] with Mel Gibson and Jennifer Lawrence. But the first and second seasons of the American drama "Women's Prison" and the second season of "House of Cards" that she co-directed with others are not bad.
The scene where Judy Foster directed "Black Mirror" is still very beautiful
Moreover, if you have seen the fourth season of "Black Mirror" and "Archangel", it is not difficult to see that she uses a lot of film techniques. However, the close-ups for a large period of time are shelved in the series of dramas with tight plots and suspense, which is very chicken.
The episode "Arkangel" is mainly about the mother who gives birth to the next daughter by caesarean section. During a park play, the curious daughter follows the cat and goes missing, and the mother screams and tries to find it. Although the daughter was finally found with the help of well-wishers, the mother planted an uneasy time bomb in her heart and decided to implant a new smart film in her daughter's brain to monitor her every move, and even automatically filter all the horror and bloody pictures to protect her daughter's physical and mental safety.
Admiring Judy Foster, a shot of "red, yellow and blue" and needles were taken
"I have a long telescope that stretches all the way to your house," he said, and shivered as we learned the phrase was spoken from a small child. In "Archangel", the mother installs this "telescope" on her own daughter. Even if the starting point is love, it quickly becomes control.
The mother uses a tablet to monitor everything about her daughter
Judy Foster explained in an interview that the core of the archangel story lies in the particularity of the distance between parents' protection and control of their children. "This is Black Mirror, not a condemnation of modern technology, nor the role of technology in our cultural life." Rather, we invented and created these emotionless things that reflected in some way some of our own psychological problems. For me, the most interesting point of the story is feminism, so the protagonist is set as a mother and a daughter, two female characters. ”
There is a twist in the middle of "Archangel", that is, the mother turns off the "archangel". Although the daughter was not very adaptable at first, after having the privacy space, she quickly got used to the life of a normal person, dared to feed the dog, and made a boyfriend. The tragedy also began with the first time that the daughter was a lot of puberty, the first time she made love, the first time she sucked powder, and she was seen by the mother with "archangel". The bridge of trust between mother and daughter collapsed in an instant.
The daughter watched all the bloody images turn into mosaics
Judy Foster also designed a metaphorical foreshadowing at the climax of the story. Sarah, who was given emergency contraception by her mother, listens to her mentor talk about the tragedy of Oedipus in class. In Greek mythology, Oedipus had an oracle that killed the father and married the mother. It can be seen that all the details carefully designed by the director are laying the groundwork for the ending, and the skill can be seen.
Archangel doesn't have a high rating because it doesn't look like Black Mirror. What locates children's Bluetooth watches, what monitors students' schools, such incidents abound in the country. This is why there are so many ignorant parents who choose to send their children to Yang Yongxin to "cure Internet addiction" and to Yuzhang Academy to "learn traditional culture", they are not without love, but they just mistakenly regard control as the only way to express love.
Let's talk about my personal favorite starship Callister. This episode actually hides a lot of Easter eggs, and director David Slade has directed the first and second seasons of the American drama "Hannibal", and the fourth season of "Breaking Bad". Well, I admit that liking USS Calister is a bit selfish. Jesse Plemont, the "low-end version of Matt Damon", who cooperated with the director, is also an actor who starred in "Breaking Bad", and the voice of "Player 691" at the end of this episode is "Little Powder" Aaron Paul.
The two play each other in Breaking Bad
"USS Callister" tells the story of a programmer who is often ignored and ridiculed by colleagues in real life. So he took advantage of his position to build a virtual USS Calist starship, using DNA modeling to bring the people who bullied him in reality to the virtual USS Calist, and he played the role of the omnipotent captain and gave orders.
Creating a virtual universe is not so much the obscenity of an individual. Just like a paragraph on the Internet, arguing with people during the day and dreaming at night will be all kinds of entanglements, which should be more imposing. That's right, Deli just converted obscenity into binary code.
The director called Netflix on the show
The newly hired girl became the rare and only person in the company who admired Deli, so that Deli had a little self-esteem in front of everyone. When Deli saw the girl being pulled away by her partner, greeting her politely, and even being plucked. It felt like his beloved toy had been snatched away by someone else, igniting his jealousy and making his peaceful heart evil and perverted.
As for the virtual reality part, it reminds me of a German movie [Who I Am, There's No Absolutely Secure System]. In the real world, the protagonist is also a loser, it is difficult to find a sense of existence, no friends, and no girlfriend. However, he is gifted with hacking technology, calling the wind and rain in the virtual world, attracting the attention of German and European criminal police.
Whether it's Deli or the hacker Benjamin in Who Am I," there are too many people like each other in reality, a little transparency in the crowd. They aspire to be recognized and respected in the game, in the virtual world. That's why some people are obsessed with online games, and even some people are addicted to web games that look low. Because in that dimension, he can not be himself, just use money to win the subordination of others, to win the kiss of beauty, is not a worthy spiritual transaction. However, fornication is OKAY, and crossing the line is a crime.
No wonder the villains in the movies are scientists, because they are always disrespected.
Another high-rated episode is "Hanging DJ", which is a story that makes people feel the happiness of love.
I have to say that this shot reminds Uncle Ba of his favorite [Buffalo 66], and the plot is two people who have just met, lying down in bed after a day of experience.
[Buffalo 66] stills
"Hanging DJ" tells the story of several single men and women trying to match the other half of their lives through software. It is said that an immature relationship between a man and a woman is divided into three stages, "kiss relationship, sexual relationship, it doesn't matter".
The first pair of boyfriends in the play, slightly shy, eat, chat, go back to the room, and even awkwardly do not know whether they need to develop a relationship through sex, so that they hold hands and fall asleep. As the number of matches in the back is increasing, the number of sex is increasing, and the girls will always shake the hand of the matching object, but most of them will sleep after the cannon, and they will not pay any attention to the girl's feelings.
Everything the system provides seems to be correct, convenient, fast, and delivers what you need to your hand, just in response to most people's disease-free moaning "Please give me a female (male) friend". But this anti-human fast-food love skips the most romantic and precious part of the whole relationship, which is the process of mutual understanding between each other. So the system constantly matches them with new characters, and records the number of times they rebel, which is how tough this love is.
True love is the courage to confront the whole world
As for the other three episodes, "Crocodile" tells the story of a girl who escaped a car accident for many years, grew up to become a famous architect, has her own family and children, but in order to cover up the responsibility for the car accident many years ago, the story of successive crimes.
There is a law in economics called the "crocodile rule", which means that if a crocodile bites your foot, if you try to break free of your foot with your hand, then the crocodile will bite your hands and feet at the same time, and the more you struggle, the more you bite. Therefore, the only way to get out is to sacrifice that foot and stop the loss in time.
The crocodile in "Black Mirror" tells such a story, and the director handles it according to the crime movie, and there is nothing wrong with it. It's just that for such a propositional work as "Black Mirror", there is no aftertaste except for the reversal of the ending with a little surprise.
The Black Museum is a crime museum in the UK, and the concept is a bit like The Simpsons' treehouse of horror series. Aside from the variety of Easter eggs and the thrill of revenge, there's nothing more.
Black Mirror Season 3 "White Bear"
This is game of a thousand faces??
Tablets in Archangel
The murderous bathtub in Crocodile
The instrument used for DNA modeling in USS Calister
Non-Easter eggs, but feel that the "perception of the net" is very curious, is a valuable research topic
As for "Iron Head", it can only be said that the director's preparation of suspense and the design of the horror atmosphere are very good, leaving a very empty and highly spiritual ending by the way.
Three people risking their lives just to get a teddy bear?
After brushing the fourth season of "Black Mirror" at one time, the most intuitive feeling for me is all kinds of accidents, but there are fewer surprises. The story only stays on the story itself, less than the surprises left by "Fifteen Million Value" in the first season, many emotions and thoughts. Still, this season of Black Mirror is well worth a look. Because next season, I don't know how long I'll have to wait...